Baleful Influence Destroys Bail-Out

It really beggars belief. The Brown regime announces gleefully that the glorious Leader will go to the ball, he will have an audience with the President of the United States (even if the allocation of a twenty past four in the afternoon time slot suggests a three-audiences-an-hour photo opportunity for foreign unexpecteds, and nothing more).

And instantly the $700bn bail-out plan to rescue the finance sector collapses in unprecedented scenes of recrimination and confusion. Jonah hasn't even got to Washington yet, so clearly the malignancy is getting ever more powerful.